A/N: Okay so they are on their way to Hogwarts again. Everyone is very excited. Enjoy! (Sorry for any grammar and/or spelling mistakes.)
2. The train ride
"LILY!" Alice ran up to Lily and gave her a bone-crushing hug. Lily laughed and returned the hug. "How was your Christmas?"
"Good. A bit boring though." Lily answered. She looked around the platform. "Have you seen Marry yet?"
"No." Alice frowned, looking out on the platform too.
"Let's go put our trunks on the train and find her afterwards."
They found an empty compartment and left their trunks. They went through the carriages on the train. There was no sign of Marry anywhere. It was only five minutes to the train left the station so Lily and Alice decided to go back to their compartment. On their way back they met fellow 6th year Gryffindors Remus and Peter who was going in the opposite direction. "Hi Remus, Peter." Alice greeted.
"Hello girls, had a nice Christmas?" Remus asked with a kind smile.
"Can't complain." Lily said, although she was sure she could have found something to complain about, she smiled back. Her and Remus had always been good friends.
"You guys do anything special?" Alice said friendly looking at the boys.
"No, not really" Remus shrugged.
"I celebrated Christmas in Italy, but other than that, no." Peter answered. He looked down on his feet. It seemed like he would rather be anywhere else.
"That sounds like fun. I would love to go there one time." Alice said.
"It was ok I guess." Peter blushed, still looking down.
"Well, I guess we should get back to our compartment before Sirius and James hurt themselves." Remus joked. "See you girls later?"
"Sure, have a –" Alice began but was cut of by a loud scream. They all turned to the sound. Lily screamed too. Marry came running towards them, she had left her trunk further down the carriage. The three girls got in to a group-hug, jumping, screaming and laughing loudly.
"I missed you so much! Sorry I didn't write to you, our owl was sick the whole time." Said Marry, letting go of them.
Remus and Peter looked shocked. "Ehm… we'll just go then. Bye." Remus said dragging Peter with him.
The girls waved after them before turning to each other again. "I have so much to tell you guys! But first, where are we sitting?"
"That way. Come on." Lily took Marry's hand and dragged her through the train.
When they were all set in their compartment they started talking about what they had been doing the past weeks. Alice had spent her holiday with her cousins and family friends. She also admitted that Frank Longbottom had been among those friends. She blushed deeply while she told them this. Frank was in seventh year at Hogwarts and Alice had had a big crush on him since last year. Marry told her that she should just snog him and get it over with. This caused a terrified look on Alice face and about five minutes of unstoppable laughter from Lily and Marry.
Marry had been very busy under the mistletoe. Apparently she had met a total of five new boys during the holiday, but none of them seemed to be boyfriend-material. Typical Marry, she was always on the look for a boyfriend. She was definitely the dater in their little group.
"What have you been up to, Lily?" Alice asked.
"Not much. Petunia's boyfriend stayed with us a couple of days so I mostly just stayed in my room." Lily shrugged.
"What did you get from James this year?" Marry asked, knowing that he usually sent her a present. "Anything good?"
Lily hesitated for a moment, but she told them what had happened that day.
"Wait, so he gave you that?" Alice pointed at the bracelet on Lily's right arm. "I thought maybe your sister gave it to you."
"My sister would never give me something this nice." Lily sighed. "I think he just finely came to his senses and grew up a little." Just as she said this, they could hear a loud explosion from somewhere on the train. "Or maybe not…"
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Remus entered the compartment just to find Sirius lying on the floor with James holding him down, forcing something that looked like Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans down his throat. "I didn't know!" Said Sirius, spitting beans out of his mouth.
"Oh yes you did!" James forced more beans into Sirius' mouth.
"What's going on in here?" Remus asked. He looked confused at the two boys.
The boys looked up at Remus and Peter standing in the door. Sirius took advantage of James' inattention and pushed him away. They both got up to their feet, watching each other carefully. Remus and Peter got in and sat down.
"He tricked me into eating a fucking bean who tasted like earwax!" James gave Sirius a killing look.
Sirius sat down next to Remus. "I said I didn't know what flavour it was." He tried to sound convincing, but his grin betrayed him. "And by the way, you should have seen your face!"
Everyone laughed except James who through the box of beans at Sirius' head. Beans flew everywhere, causing everyone to laugh even harder.
"Why were you so late, anyway?" James asked and dropped down on the seat across from Sirius.
"We met Alice and Lily on the way." Peter explained, speaking for the first time since they entered the compartment.
James' eyes widened slightly. "Lily?"
"Keep it in your pants, Prongsy." With that Sirius earned himself a kick on the leg.
They talked and joked for a while before, unknown how, they got to a point of the conversation where Sirius took out something from his pocket and showed it to the others. He held in his hand some sort of black balls, just under the size golf balls. The three other boys looked anxiously at him. And it didn't help when Sirius told them how he had gotten these balls.
"I made them." He said proudly.
"You made them?" Remus asked raising an eyebrow. "How?"
"Glad you asked, Moony." Remus immediately regretted it. "I simply added a lot of random stuff to my parents cauldron and after a minute it started looking like black paint or something. So I charmed it into these balls and thought maybe we could use them for pranks."
"In other words…" Peter began. "You have absolutely no bloody idea what those things will do?"
"No, we'll have to test them, of course." Sirius smiled. "What are you all looking so scared for?"
"I don't know about this, Padfoot." James said slowly.
"Maybe you should put them away. Carefully." Remus added.
"Why?" The train made a turn, only big enough to make one of the black balls fall out of Sirius' hand. The second it hit the ground it exploded all over the place with a loud BANG. Apparently those little things contained enough potion (or whatever it was) to paint the whole compartment black, as well as its passengers. The whole place began smelling badly of smoke, strawberries and dirty socks. It truly was an awful combination. They hurried to open the door and the window to let out the stanch.
They all gave Sirius dark looks as they tried to get the sticky black stuff off of them, but without luck. Remus took out his wand, which was also covered in black goo. He tried several cleaning spells but nothing worked. Probably because of the sticky stuff, he thought and sighed.
"At least we know what they do now." Sirius said, trying to lighten the mood.
James was just about to yell something to him, but stopped as they heard a familiar voice.
"I'm just saying that we don't know if it was them." The boys exchanged looks. A moment later Lily, Marry and Alice showed up in the door looking in on the all black compartment. "I take it back." Marry said quickly.
"What happened here?" Alice wanted to know.
"Sirius happened!" Three of the four boys said unison.
"What is this stuff?"
"Oh, this? This is the creation of one Sirius Black that is. Not that he knows what it does." James said.
"It might be poisonous, probably not something you want to have all over yourself!" Remus told the girls, though he was looking at Sirius.
The girls rolled their eyes. Lily took out her wand and tried a cleaning spell. It worked a little, the goo was gone but they all had gotten a slight grey colour that wouldn't go off, no matter what spell they all tried.
"Well, this is perfect! I always wanted to be grey all over:" Peter said sarcastically.
A/N: Btw school is starting now and it might take a while for me to update. But I'll try my best to update within a week each time. Please review! You have no idea how much it means to me :)
